askye, honey, no. It's illegal not to be paid for hours worked. You can't stop your colleagues from doing it, but don't you start!

Is it wrong of me to hope that woman gets it? Ugh.

For you? This week? Fuck no.

I had to have it out with a bank today. I have my main accounts, that I use, at one bank but have two accounts (savings and checking) at another. I started this to have a back-up in case SOMETHING AWFUL happened with my main bank. However, since I pretty much leave the accounts at my back-up bank alone, if there isn't any activity for a length of time, they consider them abandoned property and turn the money over to the Treasury. Obviously, I don't want that to happen, so I have to act. They send a letter for each account and, in theory, I can return the letter with some fields filled out and take care of it. But that doesn't work (hasn't in the past). Got the letters back in late July/early August and went in to the bank to straighten it out. I had to go in person because (1) returning the letters/forms doesn't seem to work and (2) they'd sent the letters to my old address, they were returned with a sticker that the forwarding order had expired, so they put the letters in their original envelopes in a new envelope with my current address and sent them on (I get my bank statements at my current address and they obviously have it, so I don't understand why they're sending them to my old address). Those arrived, I went to the bank's office in August, thought I'd cleared things up and had the accounts reactivated. I'd asked about getting a functioning ATM card and the man I dealt with said that I'd have to wait a few days for the accounts to register on their system as active. Called back a few days later and the person I'd dealt with was gone - no longer with the bank. Spoke with a young woman who was very put out that I didn't have the account numbers to hand and, after about 40 minutes on the phone, convinced her that I was the owner of those accounts and she grudgingly said that she'd send me a card and there'd be a PIN number sent in a separate envelope.

Nearly two months go by, no ATM card has arrived and I receive another pair of letters announcing that my accounts will be classified as abandoned property and given to the Treasury. Same as before - they'd been sent to my old address and the bank had put them in new envelopes with my new address. Ended up spending an hour walking over to the bank, dealing with a banker, trying to get it straightened out, checking to verify they had my actual address and get an actual ATM card and then walking back to my office. With a functioning ATM card, I can make minor transactions and keep the accounts active ... he said he'd have me sent a card, had me set a PIN and, with any luck, this will stop happening. I'm hoping that I can keep this from happening again ... but they're sufficiently screwed up that I'm going to wait and see.

What a mess, Toddson! Can you set up an automatic one dollar transfer from regular bank to backup bank every month or similar to avoid all that?

Timelies all!

Woke up several times last night, so I’m more tired than usual.

-t thanks, but I don't think the bank #1 to bank #2 transfer would work ... they seem to be pretty much non-compatible (and I'm nervous about that kind of thing)

Thanks -t and Gud. Shampooer vaccuumy thing achieved.

Ugh, Toddson.

Cash, man... I just. Rest in the well-earned no-other-peopleness.

That's fair, Toddson. My little credit union can be set up to make automatic payments to anyone, so I was thinking if your main bank offered something similar $1/month would be a small risk if it went wrong somehow. I love automatic payments, though. If I every get to the point where I can just have all my regular bills automatically paid and not worry that I will be overdrawn I will be so happy. Not there yet by a long shot. It tasks me.

That's ridiculous, Toddson. Close the accounts and open one at a bank that works with your primary bank and set up the auto transfer. You have plenty of options for banking (including 100% online ones).

Christopher was harassed for wearing a mask inside to pick up our carry-out pizza for dinner. Is it wrong of me to hope that woman gets it? Ugh.

1. No, I hope she does as well. 2. I've had a response ready for someone hassling me for mask wearing (unlikely to happen in Baltimore) since we started wearing them: "I'm not wearing this for COVID. I'm wearing it so I don't have to smell your stanky breath."

Is it wrong of me to hope that woman gets it? Ugh.

That sounds perfectly normal.